Low Frame Rate

Gantrithor51 · Jul 6, 2015

Hey everyone!

I know these have come up a ton of times before. I have dug through some of the forums and have not had much luck.

When I'm flying around out in my ship when it is by itself, I get around 100 FPS. As soon as I get near our station with other ships and stuff around it, the FPS drops to around 10. I would assume it is because of all the stuff around the base (it is quite large), but my friends that I play with don't seem to have the problems that I do and we are all running similar hardware.

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks everyone!

I am running the following:
-Core i7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz 3.7 GHz
-8 GB Ram
-ATI Radeon HD 6900
Win 7 64 Bit
64 Bit Java

My memory settings for StarMade are:
-6144 MB Maximal Memory
-2048 MB Initial Memory
-256 Early Generation Memory

In game graphics:

Background Image On
Bloom Effect On
Bloom Intensity 0.4
Damage display distance 600
Draw additional stars On
draw beams On
Draw other galaxies in map Off
Draw preview for paste On
draw space dust particles On
draw thruster plumes On
Field of View 85.0
Fix Framerate -1
Fullscreen ON
Liftetime (secs) of debris 15
Max Missile Trails 128
Max segments drawn at once 8000 (this is nearly maxed on my friend's very similar computers)
MaxBeamsDrawn 1024
MultiDraw Optimization Off
Preview Block to build On
rayCout/lightCalc 64
Resolution 1920x1080
Shield Effect On
Simple Lighting Quality On
Size of hit indications 1.0
Star Count 4096
use linear mag filter on Blocks Off
use lineral mag filter on GUI Off
Vert-Synch Off

SkylordLuke · Jul 6, 2015

do you have shadows turned on? that cuts your performance in half,and then some,and then some..you get the idea
also,not saying its a problem,but why only 256MB for Early Generation Memory. thats terrible xD

Gantrithor51 · Jul 6, 2015

SkylordLuke said:
do you have shadows turned on? that cuts your performance in half,and then some,and then some..you get the idea
also,not saying its a problem,but why only 256MB for Early Generation Memory. thats terrible xD

Shadows are off. What would you recommend setting Early Generation Memory to?

SkylordLuke · Jul 6, 2015

Gantrithor51 said:
Shadows are off. What would you recommend setting Early Generation Memory to?

1024 would be enough :P
also,bloom can hit your performance quite hard,not as nearly as hard as shadows,but they do take a lot of frames

Gantrithor51 · Jul 6, 2015

Neither changed much. When I unchecked bloom, it made parts of ships and the base disappear and it has a tearing effect.

Also, I appreciate the help so far!

SkylordLuke · Jul 6, 2015

hmm,seems like you (MIGHT) have a bad case of occlusion culling. :P
save your blueprints folder and world somewhere.
re-instal starmade on another location.
go into that folder after you instal it,find the settings.CFG file and open it with notepad.
all the way down,you should see G_USE_OCCLUSION_CULLING..
make sure its = false.
now start the game. (also make sure once you open the laucher,in the advanced settings the occlussion culling is off there too)
..
other than that,here are my advanced settings that work (the buggy ones)

anti-aliasing samples = 0
VBO bulk mode size(MB) = 256
simple Dyn. lighting = OFF (no point in having this turned on)
GL_MULTIDRAW = OFF
texture 2D compression = ON
texture array compression = ON
texture 2D mopmap = ON
if this doesnt work,its beyond me